Meteoritics

Meteoritics is a science that deals with meteorites and other extraterrestrial materials that further our understanding of the origin and history of the Solar System.[1][2] A specialist who studies meteoritics is known as a meteoriticist.[3]

^A rarely used synonym is Astrolithology: Leonard, Frederick C. (1953). "Introducing meteoritics: The Journal of the Meteoritical Society and the Institute of Meteoritics of the University of New Mexico". Meteoritics1 (1): 1–4. doi:10.1111/j.1945-5100.1953.tb01299.x.